If you think this year is bad, wait until we get 162 games of Travis Ishikawa at 1st.

That's not ever going to happen. The Sox would play Keppinger, Gillespie, Viciedo or one of their infield prospects at first before Ishikawa. The dude is just filler for the Charlotte roster, he'll never see the light of day.

Bernstein has been pushing the salary dump idea on the Score all day today, and Ken Rosenthal just basically took a dump on him and said you need to go for players in return.

Finally someone shut him up

You dump payroll in there is a plan for it. Ex. Savings from Rios will be used to sign a FA catcher. Savings from Dunn for a FA 3B. Then in the 2014 offseason you add a few more pieces. However if the goal was to pull a Marlins and keep payroll at $60 mil or below then that is a different story.

I'd rather both Dunn and Rios be gone, but I'd rather we eat part of the deals to buy a few prospects in return.

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Originally Posted by hawkjt

Sox need to get some prospects back for Alex.
Rios is going well right now,and can be immediately plugged into the rangers outfield and take care of it,which is exactly what they need right now.

Finally, the Sox are the ones with the leverage. Eat a few million if you must,but get some damn prospects!!

We better score a top 20. Texas has a few good OF prospects in the minors but they are all aged 17-20 and are a long way from the majors. They can't help them now.

Hahn holds all the cards and if Texas doesn't want to play ball, then let them try to make the playoffs w/one decent OF (Leonys Martin) on their roster. They need Rios even if Cruz hadn't been suspended. They gave up four players for two months of Garza; that's a complete waste if they get conservative now.

You must have skipped over my posts where I showed that Juan Pierre historically was more likely to drive in a runner already on base than Dunn.

I also recall a number of posters claiming Williams was bidding against himself, because no one else wanted to sign him.

Here's the post I made that led to me showing Pierre was more likely to drive in a runner to back up this initial claim:

"Hate to be a downer, but I give Sox fans about 2 months of their cleanup hitter whiffing regularly with runners in scoring position before they've had enough of Dunn. Over his career, Dunn has failed to put the ball in play with runners in scoring position 48.4% of the time. The dude lives on putting up garbage time numbers."
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"Hate to be a downer, but I give Sox fans about 2 months of their cleanup hitter whiffing regularly with runners in scoring position before they've had enough of Dunn. Over his career, Dunn has failed to put the ball in play with runners in scoring position 48.4% of the time. The dude lives on putting up garbage time numbers."
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